New Zealand's largest solar farm goes online

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Plenty of energy there to be captured but a very aggressive environment for the installations to survive in. There are some interesting projects being undertaken in the wave and tidal sector though.

There was some talk a while back about placing some units in the kaipara harbour, but then i heard that environmentalists had concerns about the turbines sucking in the fish and chopping them up.
I dont know how great that risk is to fish/wildlife, but it would be a great constant energy supply.

I lived in Nova Scotia back in 2004 not far from the tidal generation plant at Annapolis. It has since been shut down for environmental reasons.

The 1m tidal range in the Bay of Fundy made for great tidal energy capture and I understand they're now investigating moored mid stream turbines of the style that was planned for the Kaipara Harbour but have stalled, again due to environmental reasons.